British chancellor George Osborne has toured China this week, seeking investment and pledging £10 million in public funds to promote football and British arts there. In an op-ed at The Guardian last weekend, he summed up his vision for a “golden relationship”:
[…] There are those who say we should fear China’s rise – that we should somehow guard ourselves against it. But we reject such thinking, which would simply leave the UK slipping behind.
Instead, we should